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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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